Octodad: Dadliest Catch
Octodad: loving father, caring husband, secret cephalopod. In this absurd third-person puzzler, you play a suit-wearing octopus as he tries to convince his human family he’s, you know, not an octopus. Humour here comes from placing a ludicrous force in a mundane setting - a supermarket, a church, the back garden. Here you’re given simple tasks such as ‘BBQ the burgers’ or ‘put away the plates’, tasks made slightly more challenging when you’ve got a tangle of tentacles to contend with. Plates will smash, burgers will burn, and brilliantly, no-one will suspect a thing despite the fact, again, you’re a freaking octopus. This is self-generating slapstick: you’ll smash through the banana stand at the supermarket, mow the grass by dragging a lawnmower around on a rubbery limb, don a top hat for your wedding, and pour juice over your daughter as she innocently holds out an empty cup. Surely one of the most original concepts of the year.
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